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Embakasi & Starehe...a history of bad decisions?
KulaRaha
#1 Posted : Thursday, August 10, 2017 7:37:51 AM
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It would be interesting to see if the people of Embakasi and Starehe have historically voted in clowns & jokers, or is this the first time?

Does anyone have the historical list of MPs for those areas?

They have really let Nairobians down, I feel.

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Iganamagana
#2 Posted : Thursday, August 10, 2017 8:01:17 AM
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Mwenje, Waititu, Margaret Wanjiru, Mbugua, Kamande et al. I think their last serious politicians were the likes of Kibaki and Maina Wanjigi.
wukan
#3 Posted : Thursday, August 10, 2017 9:17:42 AM
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Historical MPs from starehe include Charles Rubia, Steve "Magic" Mwangi. After the first multiparty elections in 1992 the MPs voted in starehe used to defect to Kanu. That's why the hardcore party loyalist Maina Kamanda was voted in 1997. Kamanda was unmitigated disaster and every attempt to get him out failed because he was in the correct political party.

By the way if you take a photo of Starehe from the 1960's and compared it to today very little has changed in its urban form. For instance, Kariokor market has been in the same structure from 1928(yeah almost a century now). Actually Starehe had deteriorated so much from 2002 that in 2017 the biggest issue to be addressed was urban decay i.e. water shortage, broken public facilities. Most major companies headquarters have shifted from the CBD including the NSE.

Boni was not going anywhere his strongholds were twitter and facebook where people care Mps salary. Jaguar prevailed because of the perception that he is close to the president and Mike sonko so he can influence and stop the urban decay. Look at what he did at Riverside there is a bridge there which had no guard rails he went and took some welders and put in guard rails. He went to Grogon and did some small road works. Symbolically he was showing he understood what the ordinary voter wanted.
majimaji
#4 Posted : Thursday, August 10, 2017 3:26:35 PM
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KulaRaha wrote:
It would be interesting to see if the people of Embakasi and Starehe have historically voted in clowns & jokers, or is this the first time?

Does anyone have the historical list of MPs for those areas?

They have really let Nairobians down, I feel.

Laughing out loudly smile d'oh! d'oh! d'oh! d'oh! d'oh! d'oh! d'oh!


We (I) have not let anybody down. Take Waititu for instance, people think that the man is an illiterate country bumpkin, but let me state this for a fact: the man has a first class mind, is a good organiser and mobiliser and also a shrewd businessman. Further he has been the best experience as a politician from his days in the City Council.
That the man is considered a stone thrower with a dubious education, this we leave to the middling classes on the other side of uhuru highway.
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